(Facility) Thompson Smelter

Plant in Manitoba, Canada with commodities Cobalt, Copper, Nickel
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Ownership information
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10181957
MAS/MILS ID 1220151036
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Thompson Smelter
Alternate or previous names Thompson Mine Smelter

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -97.90048, 55.75007 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Canada Manitoba

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Cobalt Critical Secondary
Copper Secondary
Nickel Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -97.90048, 55.75007

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Plant type Smelter

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Inco Ltd.
    Interest 100
    Home office Canada
    Year 1991

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NICKDATA, INC. A COMPREHENSIVE NICKEL INDUSTRY COST DATABASE

  • Deposit

    AND COSTING PROGRAM. 1991. ILMAR J. MARTENS,

  • Deposit

    THOMAS F. TORRIES. PRODUCTION UNITS 6-8.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit APPROXIMATELY 21% OF THOMPSON MATTE IS REFINED AT COPPER CLIFF REFINERY IN ONTARIO; 79% IS REFINED AT THOMPSON REFINERY. COPPER CLIFF USES PRESSURE CARBONYL, WHILE THOMPSON USES SULFIDE ANODE ELECTROWINNING. CAPACITY FOR ALL MATTE FROM THOMPSON OPS. = 54.4 KMT NI CONTAINED/YR. 1991 PLANNED PRODUCTION THOMPSON OPS. IS 47 KMT NICKEL CONTAINED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 22-DEC-94 Bleiwas, Donald U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.